mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto
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docs(blog): cover the terminal agent, and fix the counts in the intro The 4.8 post never mentions that `local-ai chat` stopped being a REPL and became an agent (#11291): the nib harness compiled into the binary, with tool use behind an approval gate, sub-agents, MCP servers, plugins and skills, auto-configured against the local instance. It also ships a shell integration script for zsh, bash and fish that binds Ctrl+Space. That is one of the larger user-facing changes in the release and it was missing from both the post and the release-notes highlights. Added a section after 3D generation, including the breaking changes for anyone who had habits around the old REPL: `/clear` is gone in favour of `/compact`, and a model switch now keeps the conversation. While in the intro, corrected the counts. The post said 374 pull requests in twenty-one days, which was accurate when it was drafted on the 4th but not once v4.8.0 was tagged on the 5th. The published release notes say 386 in twenty-two days, and the intro now matches them rather than contradicting them. For the record, neither figure is exactly right: `git log --format=%s v4.7.1..v4.8.0 | grep -cE '\(#[0-9]+\)$'` counts 388 squash-merged pull requests, and 389 from v4.7.0. The notes were cut before the last few landed. Matching the published notes was the priority here, since that is the artifact everyone else quotes, and 386 is the number already in circulation. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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